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NOT JUST THIS:

Two other Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina who sided with the GOP to overturn vetoes of major bills (e.g. anti-trans legislation) are also losing in their primaries so far to progressive challengers.

This could be a major night in NC.

The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.

What often gets missed in stories about declining birth rates is that they're due to declines specifically among young women. Young women are exercising reproductive autonomy and are making considered decisions about whether and when to have children.

This is a good thing.

And so First Things (the leading Catholic magazine of religion and public life) joins evangelicals in making the pivot from “Christian nationalism isn’t a real thing” to “Actually, Christian nationalism is awesome and we need it!”

Jim Bakker is still at it, teaching Biblical prophecy

legends never die

a lot to consider here, but: “the back of her cervix?”

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social

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But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House. Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.

The Johnny MAGA account was created in September 2021, according to its X profile. (It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade’s birth year, according to records reviewed by WIRED.) While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022. The operator of the Johnny MAGA account has not disclosed an official relationship with the White House while operating the Johnny MAGA X account. Multiple media outlets, including Mother Jones, TownHall, and the New York Post, have all linked out to posts on the Johnny MAGA account seemingly as organic reflections of public sentiment on political issues.

This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now. About the state of extremism in the U.S.

We analyzed the data leak from White Date, a white supremacist dating site, with an eye for what it could tell us about Texas politics. We found that Texas users included multiple neo-fascist activists, as well as former and active duty military members, and more.

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The ICE Contractor Down the Hall A tour through the Midtown intelligence firms and courier services that help keep the agency running.

new from me at @curbed.com: everyone ICE did business with in New York City last year www.curbed.com/article/ice-...

the diabetes storyline is good and I am overall glad they showed it, but I feel similarly

if this version of me existed, I’m sure she’d be upset right now

you’re telling me that following Doug J. Balloon is not an act of praxis??

Gaby del Valle is one of the best reporters I know and the attacks against her on here are not only shocking in their violence and bigotry but also incredibly bad-faith and utterly without merit.

they aren’t, and I haven’t suggested otherwise. I’m not ranking social media sites, I’m saying, specifically, that Bluesky is toxic in its own way

it means that people desperately need to go outside and touch grass

what is that supposed to mean?

this is correct. people have completely lost the plot on here

Punch the monkey gets dragged by a bigger monkey

hearing that we won a hockey game

it does feel like something out of V for Vendetta

this really brought out the Celt in me. and the French too, let’s be real

wait I’ve never heard of that! but that’s funny because our youth group did lock ins all the time

hell yeah

The Burning Hell is also great (created by the same guys who made Footmen) but it’s not End Times themed, exactly, I just love it lol

I have seen it, and mentioned it in a piece this week! (There are sequels, too.) The Left Behind movies are always funny. If you can find it, watch If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? And to round out this experience, try The Omega Code, which is so so stupid and weird

why are people boosting Mike Elk’s shit? has the lore not made its way over here yet?

of course, I no longer believe in God. because I went to college in Ohio

someone should’ve warned me that the new Love Is Blind is set in Ohio. as a woman who went to college there I think God in his infinite wisdom should have sent a lightning bolt to strike my television